unable to turn off auto mounting feature

sharkus · 08-22-2006, 02:46 PM

Hello, I am trying to write a program that will mount a USB mounted device into a set location using the system() command in C/C++. However, suse will automatically mount this device in /media/usbdisk1 or something along those lines. I already edited the fstab file. I also checked around for autofs and automount and found they are not even on the machine. Is there some way I can turn off this automount feature or circumvent it?

abisko00 · 08-22-2006, 03:26 PM

Which SUSE version?
9.3: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Conventio...stead_of_subfs
9.1: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:9.1:_Conv...stead_of_subfs
10.0: In /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor, in all files change all lines with "should_mount" from "true" to "false"
or
Create /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/nomount_usb_disk.fdi with the following content:

Code:

<?xml version"1.0" encoding"ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<!-- This .fdi file prevent automount for external harddisk. -->
<deviceinfo version"0.2">
<device>
<match key"storage.bus" string"usb">
<match key"storage.drive_type" string"disk">
<match key"storage.policy.should_mount" bool"true">
<merge key"storage.policy.should_mount" type"bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

Haven't tried the 10.0 methods. These hints are from a german SUSE forum www.linux-club.de

Can't help with 10.1 (yet).
There might be an option to blacklist certain devices.